Final warnings about Obamacare

7:54 PM,
Aug. 23, 2013

Cal Thomas

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Cal Thomas
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Each visit to the U.K. brings new horror stories about the National Health Service.

Last month, Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, issued a forensic report, commissioned by the government, which found that 14 underperforming hospitals in England had substandard care, contributing to the needless deaths of nearly 13,000 people since 2005. Earlier this year, it was reported that a single hospital in Staffordshire recorded 1,400 "excess" deaths.

Following the July report, letters from patients and relatives of those who died flooded in to newspapers, Sky News and the BBC. Many ...